Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Commons (duleek Lower By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Commons (duleek Lower By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.65523, -6.41866
- SMR number
- ME027-038031-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A cross-slab that is described as rectangular (max. dims 1.35m x 0.39m; T 0.2m) with a double-ringed incised cross (Bradley and King 1985, 45), whose arms do not extend beyond the ring, has been removed for safe-keeping from the graveyard (ME027-038029-) of St. Cianán's parish church (ME027-038013-) (O Boyle 2001, 129).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload 19 August, 2014
References
O Boyle, E. 2001 Inscriptions from gravestones in Duleek Old Churchyard and from Plaques in St. Kienan's Church of Ireland church. Ríocht na Mídhe 12, 129-55.
Bradley, J. and King, H.A. 1985 Urban archaeological survey - county Meath. Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.